The opportunity

NPCI is looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer specializing in automation, Kubernetes, and system reliability engineering, with a solid focus on AI-driven testing and resilience engineering. In this role, you will architect and execute automated reliability testing frameworks, simulate real-world failure scenarios, and ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of mission-critical payment systems operating at national scale.

This is a high-impact role where you'll work at the intersection of:

- DevOps + SRE + Chaos Engineering + AI-driven testing

- Ensuring platforms are failure-ready, not just failure-resistant

Job details

- Job Title: DevOps Engineer – Reliability & Automation

- Division: Quality Control & Monitoring Systems

- Experience: 3–7 Years

- Employment Type: Full-time

- Location: Hyderabad

- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field

- Preferred Certifications: CKA / CKAD / Cloud DevOps (AWS/Azure/GCP)

- Work Mode: 5 Days Work From Office (WFO)

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for application delivery and infrastructure provisioning

- Containerize applications using Docker and orchestrate via Kubernetes
- Deploy, manage, and optimize production-grade Kubernetes clusters

Reliability & Resilience Engineering

• Design and implement automated resilience and reliability testing frameworks

- Develop and execute failure simulation strategies (node failures, latency, network partitioning, etc.)
- Build and run fault injection mechanisms for controlled chaos testing
- Identify system weaknesses and improve fault tolerance & recovery strategies

Monitoring, Observability & Incident Readiness

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Open Telemetry)

- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Enhance observability for distributed systems

Infrastructure, Networking & Security





• Manage Linux systems and troubleshoot performance and reliability issues

- Configure networking components including:

➤ Load balancing

➤ DNS

➤ Firewalls & VPN

- Ensure security, compliance, and best practices across infrastructure

Collaboration & Productivity

• Work closely with SRE, DevOps, QA, and development teams

- Improve developer productivity through automation and self-service platforms
- Contribute to platform reliability culture and engineering excellence

Requirements

Required Technical Skills

Core DevOps Stack

Strong hands-on experience with:

- Docker & Kubernetes (Administration + Automation)

- CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Flux

Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
- Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Pulumi

Systems & Networking Expertise

Strong Linux administration skills (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL)

Deep understanding of networking

- TCP/IP, DNS, routing

- Load balancing, firewalls, VPN

Observability & Monitoring

Experience with

- Prometheus

- Grafana

- ELK/EFK stack

- Open Telemetry

Programming & Automation

Proficiency in

- Bash / Shell

- Python / Go

Strong scripting for automation and testing frameworks

Systems Thinking

Understanding of

- Distributed systems behavior

- Failure modes & recovery patterns

- Storage systems (Ceph, physical storage)

- Network stack (Overlay networking)

Good to Have Skills and Experience Required

Advanced Reliability Engineering

• Exposure to Chaos Engineering frameworks (Chaos Mesh, Litmus, Gremlin)

- Understanding of SRE practices and production reliability

AI-Driven Testing

• Experience with AI-powered testing or automation tools

- Familiarity with intelligent fault detection & predictive failure analysis

Distributed Systems Expertise

Understanding of

- System behavior under large-scale failures
- High-throughput, low-latency architectures

Security & Advanced Platform

Knowledge of

- Kubernetes security (RBAC, Network Policies)
- GitOps methodologies
- Advanced networking (CNI plugins, eBPF)

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